Question

At what point between conception and birth is an organism a human being? What scientific evidence would you require to change your position on this issue?

Answer 1

*Gametes are reproductive cells that are a sperm or ovum that can produce a new individual.

*If it combines with a gamete from the other sex to make a zygote.

*Zygote is the single cell formed from the union of two gametes, a sperm, and an ovum.

*XX: A 23 pair chromosome that consists of 2X shaped chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father.XX zygote becomes females.

*XY: A 23 pair chromosome that consists of XY shaped chromosome X -shaped chromosome from the mother and the Y-shaped chromosome from the father.XY zygote becomes males.

*Prenatal period is the period from conception to birth

*The duration of the period is ninth month

*During this period most rapid change will occur

*During this period the one-celled organism is transformed into the human baby with remarkable capacities for adjusting to life in the surrounding world.

*Life begins at conception and should be protected at all stages.

Scientific Evidence:

*A child in the womb has individual and unique Chromosomes.

*At the moment of conception till delivery, the preborn babies show the characteristics that define life such as :

-Responsiveness to the environment

-Growth and change

-The ability to reproduce

-A regulated metabolism and oxygen flow (Fetal circulation)

-Maintain homeostasis

-composed of cells

-Capacity to pass traits onto offspring

That means human life begins at the moment of conception. The fetus/baby in the mother's womb possesses all the traits of life and humanity.

*Anyway the fetus is just a clump of cells, although human babies are conceived in the wombs of human mothers are alive at the moment of conception

*The zygote produces increasingly complex tissues, structures, and organs that work together in a coordinated way.

The cells, tissues, and organs produced during development do not generate an embryo. They are produced by the embryo as it directs its own development to more mature stages of human life.

*This organized, coordinated behavior of embryo is the defining characteristic of a human organism.

Thus we can say that human life begins at sperm-egg fusion and is continually undergo division and develop and mature themselves in the womb till 9 months to achieve the growth and development capacity by themselves to become a human being